On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 10:52:58AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Ugh. Looking around at this, it turns out that a great example of this > kind of legacy issue is the debug_mutex stuff. > > It uses "struct thread_info *" as the owner pointer, and there is _no_ > existing reason for it. In fact, in every single place it actually > wants the task_struct, and it does task_thread_info(task) just to > convert it to the thread-info, and then converts it back with > "ti->task". > > So the attached patch seems to be the right thing to do regardless of > this whole discussion. Yeah, that looks fine. Want me to take it or will you just commit? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
